Speakers' Series

The Women's Studies Institute 2007-2008 Speakers Series

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• September 11, 2007 - Jasbir Puar, Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies/ Geography Department, Rutgers University - "Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times."
• October 25, 2007 - Donna Goldstein, Associate Professor, Anthropology Department, University of Colorado-Boulder - "Guns, Gangs, and Global Actors: How Brazil Lost the Gun Ban Referendum." Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology & the Center for Latin American and Latino/a Studies.
• February 18, 2008 - Janet Jakobsen, Director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women - "Perverse Justice: AIDS, Economics, and the 'War on Terror.'" Co-sponsored by the Atlanta Women's Foundation and the Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics.
• March 20, 2008 - Lisa Kung, H. Lee Sarokin Director of the Southern Center for Human Rights - "The Fear of 'Too Much Justice.'"

All lectures will take place at 5:00 p.m. in the Troy Moore Library, 9th floor, General Classroom Building.

• Here are some past events presented by the WSI.